EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a column from a dozen years ago. At the time, R.C. Buford’s path to become the Spurs’ general manager was improbable. Or, it was another step in becoming the 2014 NBA executive …

A year ago, when Oklahoma was preparing to play Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl, Bob Stoops assigned a redshirting freshman the job of impersonating Johnny Manziel. What Stoops saw then worried him about …